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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
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On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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On a mission to nurture hunger-free drylands
09.10.20-
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The 95th Governing Board meeting, held virtually, affirmed ICRISAT’s commitment to a hunger-free …
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Prof Prabhu Pingali takes the baton as Chair of ICRISAT Governing Board
09.10.20-
Gender equality
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Prof Prabhu Pingali, Founding Director, Tata-Cornell Institute, took charge as ICRISAT Governing Boa…
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The Telegraph: Let’s not wash our hands of water
02.10.20-
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The post-coronavirus recovery will offer a chance to improve water security for the world’s needie…
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A new digital hub to consolidate learnings from global food legume initiatives
02.10.20-
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Nutrition
To enable crop researchers and policymakers access information on the three Tropical Legumes project…
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Cost and safety of food are major factors influencing adolescents’ food choices in urban Ethiopia
29.09.20-
Food security
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An innovative study by the universities of Addis Ababa and Wageningen and the French National…
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Nomadic pastoralist communities: An invisible frontier in health surveillance
29.09.20-
Health
A new research paper in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (Sept 2020)…
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Seven villages, 700 women, one story: Plant nurseries in Niger are changing lives
25.09.20-
Gender equality
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A group of women across four regions of south-western Niger have grown 84,000 trees to…
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Seed consortium to bring improved sorghum to Indian farmers post rains
18.09.20-
Gender equality
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To make quality seeds of improved sorghum easily accessible, a consortium of institutions is taking…
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COVID-19: The virus will mostly spare young children; the economic crisis will not
14.09.20-
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Nutrition
BY MARIE RUEL AND DEREK HEADEY As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread and persist, disrupting…
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What rising CO2 does to one of world’s most important protein sources
11.09.20-
Biodiversity
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In their effort to ensure food and nutrition security in the face of rising carbon…
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Increased funding support to AVISA to accelerate crop improvement and improve seed delivery systems
11.09.20-
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Nutrition
One year after it began, Accelerated Varietal Improvement and Seed Delivery of Legumes and Cereals…
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Experts call on African countries to prioritize food safety in urban food markets
11.09.20-
Health
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa launched its 2020 Africa Agriculture Status Report…
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Transforming African food systems for a resilient future
10.09.20-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Claudia Sadoff, Executive Management Team Convener and Managing Director, Research Delivery and I…
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The geometry of disease: A longitudinal calf cohort study in Kenya has yielded a unique database and biorepository
10.09.20-
Big data
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Health
Fun with Lines and Curves by Elsie C. Ellison, 1972 (binding illustration). The IDEAL project,…
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Chicken intervention in Ethiopian households improved the nutrition and growth of young children
09.09.20-
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Ethiopian chicken farmer with her children (photo credit: ILRI). ILRI animal geneticist/breeder Tade…
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Diving into diverse human-ocean relationships bares the base of a fair blue economy
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Biodiversity
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We are all ocean people, whether we live by the sea or not. Life on…
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The challenges of influencing consumer behavior to improve food safety
05.09.20-
Health
In Kenya, levels of exposure to aflatoxin are among the highest in the world, owing…
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Supermarketization is not the only strategy to enhance food safety in China
05.09.20-
Health
In a new paper, the author explores how supermarketization of China's vegetable sector has impacted…
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